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This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age. …
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and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty … significant determinants of child marriage. Our results which control for province fixed effects (e.g. local cultural norms or …
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effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …
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occupational outcomes, marriage, and fertility that are similar across census waves. Our results indicate that the returns to …
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having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood … that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U … children. We also find that the "de-coverture" acts' effects were stronger for literate women, U.S.-born women, in states with …
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This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...
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reproduce by cell separation, to one where individuals differentiated by sex marry, have children and bargain over the … allocation of domestic resources on condition that individual preferences are transmitted from parents to children, and having …
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marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …
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-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...
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